Proverbs 13:20

A Wise Son Lives Righteously

¹⁹ The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil. ²⁰ He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. ²¹ Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repaid.

Wise Men

Proverbs 9:6

Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Proverbs 15:31

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.

Acts 2:42

And they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

Genesis 13:12-13

Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent towards Sodom.

Genesis 14:12

And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

1 Kings 12:8

But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that had grown up with him, and who stood before him:

1 Kings 12:10

And the young men that had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak to this people who spoke to thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter to us; thus shalt thou say to them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.

1 Kings 22:4

And he said to Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.

1 Kings 22:32

And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.

2 Chronicles 19:2

And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldst thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.

Psalm 119:63

I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.

Proverbs 1:11-19

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

Proverbs 2:12-20

To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

Proverbs 7:22-23

He goeth after her quickly, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

Proverbs 7:27

Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Song of Songs 1:7-8

Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

Malachi 3:16

Then they that feared the LORD spoke often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.

1 Corinthians 15:33-34

Be not deceived: Evil communications corrupt good manners.

2 Corinthians 6:14-18

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Hebrews 10:24

And let us consider one another to excite to love and to good works:

Revelation 18:4

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.